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May 27th, 2011

The American family has reached a milestone: according to the Census Bureau, married couples are now no longer a majority in American households. “The days of Ozzie and Harriet have faded into the past,”...

Last week, it was marmite. Soon, it will be pot-smoking tourists who will be banned from Dutch cannabis shops:The Dutch government on Friday said it would start banning tourists from buying cannabis from "coffee...

An expedition off the North Carolina coast recovered the anchor from the wreckage of pirate Blackbeard's ship, Queen Anne's Revenge:The Queen Anne's Revenge is believed to have run aground in the shallow waters off B...

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Quickly! A wormhole will only open if the ocarina is played at 88 beats per minute! This ingenious fan film by Grant Duffrin explains and unites the stories of The Legend of Zelda franchise by...

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We told you the story of Tama, the cat who became stationmaster at a train station in Japan (one, two, three, four, five times). Her success at bringing in new customers has spawned a series of non-human stationmasters,...

I don't have any information about this clever piece of street art except that it was discovered by Flickr user Bear in Mind. I wonder what material was used.
Link via Craftpacman, street art, cross stitch...

The admission standards for the US service academies are incredibly demanding, to say nothing of the task of graduating. But success runs in the Robillard family. The four children of the family, who form two sets of...

Whether they remind you of Princess Leia's hair buns or Princess Vespa's headphones (Spaceballs), redditor Jacquielonglegs did a great job with this craft project. She wonders if she should sell the set....

In the olden days of the Internet, it was fun to trip people up by linking to The Onion stories and acting as though they were real. Now, people are too Internet saavy to fall for this trick. Well, one would...

It's an AR-15 short-barreled rifle rendered in stained glass by Joe Thunstrom. I can so easily imagine it in a kitchen window in a picturesque country cottage.
Link via Everyday, No Days Offstained glass, rifles...

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Here's how it works: the palm of your hand is in view of a depth camera. Wherever you point on your palm corresponds to an area of the screen on a touchscreen phone. The computer hooked up to the camera...

There was a time when rich and powerful men were expected to have a few flings on the side--or, if they were really classy, a long-term mistress with her own conveniently located house. Those days are gone, though, and I...

Being the older brother of Napoleon Bonaparte wasn't an easy job. Joseph wanted to be a writer, but instead had to rule Naples and then Spain. When Napoleon was defeated, Joseph set sail for the United States, where he e...

The folks over at ComicsAlliance see a lot of great art, especially of the superhero variety. They run across so many great artists and designers that a few months ago, they started a weekly column called "The Best Art E...

For the past three years, Phillip Herr of the US Government Accountability Office was tasked by Congress to find out what's wrong with the US Postal Service. He came to this conclusion (unsurprising to some, I'm sure):*e...

The last time I had an actual meal on an airplane, it was almost certainly a frozen Banquet turkey and dressing dinner in a different package. That doesn't mean the novelty of eating inside an airplane has worn off,...

NPR posted overhead views of Joplin, Missouri before the tornado hit Sunday, and two days after the devastation. You can move a slider over the pictures to compare the two. Be warned, it's sad. http://www.npr.org/201...

It’s always interesting to me when people start bringing economics into such other worldly endeavors as space exploration. However financial gain will ultimately be the driving force to get us there.
Twenty trillion U...

It’s hard to believe that NASA’s Mars Rover Spirit which was only supposed to function for a short period of time had been going strong on the Red Planet for years. Sadly however its mission is coming to an end.
Fro...

The day when we no longer use cash or credit cards is quickly approaching. Soon you may be using your smart phone to pay for items at stores and restaurants.
For now, though, the “tap-to-pay” system is taking baby...

Scientists have created the largest 3D map of the universe that covers 380 million light years. The project took over a decade to complete.
It's called the 2MASS Redshift Survey (2MRS) and is based upon the University...

This game may just waste a few hours of your day, but you will enjoy doing it. Try to angle the lines under the dropping ball to create different musical tones. You can adjust the speed and rate at which the balls drop....

A billboard campaign aimed at promoting colon cancer awareness has been kicked to the curb in Washington state. The ads, which feature the slogan "What's up your butt?", were initially approved unanimously by the Tri...

What could be interesting about the business of renting storage units? The fact that they are used for so many other things besides storage! Renting a storage unit is cheaper than renting office space, retail space, a gy...

I saw this and immediately figured it was a response to Firefox 4, which has caused me to use Force Quit more in the last couple of months than any time since I bought my latest computer. DeviantART member Ron Guyatt...

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The illusion comprises a morphing sequence between two faces. The observer has to fixate a dot superimposed on the morph. When the dot is moving, morphing can hardly be seen. However, when the dot sudde...